After the two agreed to travel together from now on, the Little Fairy Doctor looked at Lin Yuan with a gentle smile.
At that moment, a calm smile rested on his handsome face. He still carried that familiar air of confidence and composure. Seeing this, the pressure weighing on the Little Fairy Doctor's heart eased considerably, and her worries about the future diminished in an instant.
It was as though the once uncertain and dangerous road ahead had suddenly become clear and dependable.
Thinking back on everything they had experienced together, she realized that regardless of what kind of personality Lin Yuan displayed while they were together, he always seemed capable of solving every problem they encountered, giving others the reassuring sense of security of an unshakable mountain.
Just as the Little Fairy Doctor was lost in thought, Lin Yuan's voice sounded beside her.
"Little Fairy Doctor, this is for you."
As he spoke, Lin Yuan took a token and a notebook out of his storage ring and handed them to her.
"This notebook take a look through it first. Think carefully about whether you're willing to accept my invitation and join the organization."
"Oh? What could be so important that you're treating it this seriously?"
With a mixture of curiosity and confusion, the Little Fairy Doctor accepted the token engraved with the words 'Tian Xuan' and opened the notebook Lin Yuan had handed her.
"Seven Stars Organization, Tian Xuan Star Master Manual."
After a long while, she closed the notebook and looked at Lin Yuan with newfound admiration.
As the extraordinary figure who had personally founded the Poison Sect. she immediately understood Lin Yuan's ideas, objectives, the organization's growth potential, and its operating principles.
The concept was simple.
A snowball effect.
Use cooperation and mutually beneficial exchanges to integrate resources, then use those accumulated resources to expand onto an even greater stage.
Overall, it was an organization with tremendous potential. If managed properly, it could gather and circulate resources at an astonishing rate.
Closing the notebook, the Little Fairy Doctor nodded decisively.
"Since it's your invitation, I'm willing to join the Seven Stars Organization."
"Good. Welcome to the organization, Tian Xuan Star Master, Mu Yunxian."
Lin Yuan smiled softly as he rubbed Zi Yan's head.
"Let me introduce you. This little girl is the Tian Shu Star Master. I'm her subordinate the Tian Shu Assistant Star and the acting leader of the Seven Stars Organization."
Hearing this, Zi Yan placed both hands on her waist and proudly puffed out her chest.
"That's right! I'm the real Tian Shu Star Master. Brother Lin Yuan is my little follower."
Watching the two interact, the Little Fairy Doctor smiled warmly.
It was obvious that the two truly shared a close bond.
Then she lightly shook the token in her hand and asked teasingly,
"Tian Xuan Star Master. Did you choose this title specifically for me? Does it have any special meaning?"
Lin Yuan shook his head slightly.
"Nothing particularly special. I simply thought it sounded nice and suited you."
"I see."
She smiled.
"Thank you. I quite like the title Tian Xuan Star Master."
Putting the token into her storage ring, she continued, "So, was resolving the Woeful Poison Body and establishing the Seven Stars Organization the purpose of your visit to the Chu Yun Empire?"
"Besides those matters, is there anything else? As long as it concerns the Chu Yun Empire, I should be able to help you."
Lin Yuan nodded before replying thoughtfully.
"There is something else. I intend to help you unify the Chu Yun Empire and turn this place into one of the Seven Stars or rather, into my grazing ground."
"A grazing ground?" the Little Fairy Doctor asked. "Do you mean a place for gathering resources?"
"Yes and no."
A trace of coldness flashed through Lin Yuan's eyes.
"Little Fairy Doctor, you should know about the Devil Poison Spot, right?"
"Of course."
She nodded.
"It is an extremely vicious technique of the Poison Dou Qi system. Quite a few people in the Chu Yun Empire know how to use it."
"The Devil Poison Spot condenses all of one's Poison Dou Qi before firing it into the enemy's body, forming a black mark."
"The mark releases poisonous threads that connect to the body's acupoints. Once those threads spread throughout every acupoint, the victim's meridians rapidly rot away, causing them to die slowly amid endless agony."
"However, once this technique is used, the user's lifelong cultivation is completely dispersed, leaving them a cripple."
"Unless one is at death's door or consumed by overwhelming hatred, no one would ever use it."
"But you don't cultivate Poison Dou Qi. Why are you asking about it?"
"Heh."
Lin Yuan smiled faintly.
"Because I want someone else to use the Devil Poison Spot on me."
"What?"
The Little Fairy Doctor's pupils shrank in disbelief.
"Are you trying to kill yourself?"
"Kill myself? Of course not."
Lin Yuan waved his hand calmly.
"Little Fairy Doctor, have you ever considered that, besides killing enemies, the Devil Poison Spot could actually be used as a cultivation aid?"
"A cultivation aid?"
His words left her puzzled.
What could such a technique possibly have to do with cultivation?
Lin Yuan nodded.
"The essence of the Devil Poison Spot is extremely pure source Dou Qi. Compared to ordinary medicinal pills, the energy it contains is even greater and purer."
"If that energy could be turned into one's own, a cultivator's cultivation speed would increase dramatically."
"To use such a method which transfers one's own refined Dou Qi, to serve only as a combat technique is an enormous waste."
After hearing his explanation, the Little Fairy Doctor fell silent in thought.
After a moment, she looked deeply into Lin Yuan's eyes.
"Lin Yuan, you must think this through carefully."
"The Devil Poison Spot concerns life and death. Turning that power into your own is by no means an easy task."
"Even I can only neutralize Devil Poison Spots left by cultivators below the Dou Ancestor class. If the mark was left by a Dou Ancestor, I can only delay its effects and even then, I still cannot utilize the energy within it."
Seeing the concern in her eyes, Lin Yuan waved reassuringly.
"Don't worry. This isn't a spur-of-the-moment idea. It's something I've planned for a very long time."
"Ordinary people cannot refine the Devil Poison Spot's energy and would quickly die from it."
"But I'm different."
"I possess multiple Heavenly Flames protecting my body, and I'm highly skilled in sealing techniques. Even the Devil Poison Spot would find it difficult to take my life."
"And precisely because I possess multiple Heavenly Flames, refining and absorbing the energy leaking from the Devil Poison Spot is actually feasible for me."
As he spoke, a sharp light flashed through Lin Yuan's profound eyes.
Using the Devil Poison Spot for cultivation was something he had long been preparing for.
Collecting multiple Heavenly Flames and finding ways to control them was not primarily for increasing his combat strength.
Their refining ability was what he valued the most.
And greatly enhancing the refining power of his flames was, to a considerable extent, preparation for this very plan.
The Crowdfunded Cultivation Plan.
On the Dou Qi Continent, the Dou Ancestor class was a watershed.
After reaching the Dou Ancestor realm, every single star became a world apart.
Unless one possessed a special physique or an extraordinary bloodline, cultivation speed after becoming a Dou Ancestor became painfully slow.
In the original timeline, even Xiao Yan, after advancing to the Dou Ancestor class, gained very few cultivation levels through normal cultivation alone.
Thus, from the Dou Ancestor realm up until the Dou Saint realm, it became the domain of those who possessed Dou Di Bloodlines.
The age advantage and early cultivation advantage of ordinary geniuses would rapidly disappear before the power of bloodlines and often be effortlessly surpassed.
This was the stage where enormous cultivation gaps truly emerged.
For ordinary cultivators, advancing one star in several years was already considered extremely fast.
But for those with powerful Dou Di Bloodlines, advancing one star per year could even be considered slow.
To solve this problem, Lin Yuan came up with one solution.
Gather the strength of the masses.
If one person's cultivation efficiency was limited then what would happen if the cultivation efforts of ten people, a hundred people, a thousand people or even ten thousand people.
Were all used to support a single individual?
Surely, such efficiency would rival that of the overwhelming majority of Dou Di Bloodlines.
All of these ideas eventually formed Lin Yuan's Crowdfunded Cultivation Plan, a strategy painstakingly devised to guarantee his cultivation speed during the later stages of his journey.
And the moment he conceived the idea of cultivating through the collective strength of many people, the Devil Poison Spot naturally came to mind.
Although dangerous, it was the finest method Lin Yuan knew for converting another person's Dou Qi into his own.
Lin Yuan clearly remembered that in the original timeline, the Devil Poison Spot cast by Xie Bi Yan, a four-star Dou Ancestor had provided Xiao Yan with tremendous assistance.
During both the Dou Emperor and Dou Ancestor stages, it had repeatedly helped Xiao Yan break through.
Ultimately, when Xiao Yan reached the two-star Dou Ancestor realm, he completely refined the Devil Poison Spot within the Ye Clan of the Pill Region, causing his cultivation to leap directly to the four-star Dou Ancestor realm.
In terms of improving cultivation, its effects were no weaker than consuming two Ancestor Origin Pills perhaps even slightly superior.
The Ancestor Origin Pill was a peak Seventh-Grade medicinal pill, belonging to the same series as the Dou Spirit Pill and the Emperor Extreme Pill.
Its effects were likewise similar, allowing a Dou Ancestor to advance by one star.
However, each person could consume only one Ancestor Origin Pill in their lifetime.
Now, with the great war for supremacy in the Chu Yun Empire about to begin, it was precisely the time when a new order would be forged.
To Lin Yuan, this land was a true treasure trove.
Countless Devil Poison Spots awaited his harvest.
The souls and physical bodies of countless powerful experts were also valuable resources that could be collected and put to use.
Once he helped the Little Fairy Doctor dominate the Chu Yun Empire, he would obtain enough samples to research and improve the Devil Poison Spot.
During the few days since entering the Chu Yun Empire, Lin Yuan had already acquired the Devil Poison Spot technique from a Dou Emperor of the Chu Yun Empire.
As for his research direction, he had already settled on two paths.
The first based on the principles of the Devil Poison Spot, create energy-transfer techniques for other elemental attributes.
Since Poison Dou Qi could form the Devil Poison Spot. Then Fire Dou Qi might be able to form a Devil Flame Spot. Water Dou Qi could form a Devil Water Spot. Lightning Dou Qi could form a Devil Lightning Spot.
Exactly how this would work would certainly require a great number of samples for research, but it was undoubtedly a topic worth exploring.
If such energy-transfer techniques could truly be developed, Qing Lin's Triple Jade-Green Snake Flower Pupils would become even more strategically valuable.
The numerous magical beasts she subdued would not only accelerate her own cultivation but could also help Lin Yuan increase his cultivation.
After all, the Central Plains had no shortage of snake-type magical beasts below the Dou Saint level.
Qing Lin had plenty of spare "batteries."
The second direction was to improve the Devil Poison Spot itself and reduce its side effects.
In its current form, once the Devil Poison Spot was used, the caster would lose all of their Dou Qi.
However, if the amount of energy used could be controlled and reduced to only twenty to thirty percent of one's Dou Qi, then with certain methods and medicinal pills, the caster could recover very quickly.
After recovering, they could once again use the Devil Poison Spot, contributing another portion of their pure Origin Dou Qi.
If this improvement succeeded, all Poison Dou Qi cultivators could establish a system similar to paying a "Dou Qi Tax."
Everyone would steadily contribute a portion of their Origin Dou Qi to Lin Yuan, assisting his cultivation.
Under such a system, it would no longer be a matter of exhausting a resource in one go.
Instead, it would become a sustainable method of harvesting that resource.
The ideal outcome would be for both research directions to succeed.
If that happened, Lin Yuan would no longer need to worry about his cultivation speed for a very long time.
Regardless of how things developed afterward, however, Lin Yuan had already decided to take control of the Chu Yun Empire and transform it into his own pasture.
The Devil Poison Spot had already proven its practicality.
And this land, which possessed the greatest number of Poison Masters, was a region his Crowdfunded Cultivation Plan absolutely had to secure.
If there were no cheat abilities, then he would create his own.
That was Lin Yuan's creed.
If he lacked a unique physique or bloodline, then he would make up for it with techniques, Dou Skills, and Secret Arts born of wisdom.
By relying on Shadow Clones and his Crowdfunded Cultivation Plan, he would buy himself time and allow himself to grow at the fastest possible speed.
"Little Fairy Doctor, this is my preliminary plan and what I mean by a grazing ground. What do you think? Would you be willing to lend me your strength?"
After briefly explaining his plans, Lin Yuan looked at her expectantly.
A long while later, the Little Fairy Doctor finally finished digesting everything he had said.
She looked at him with a complicated gaze filled with admiration.
His courage astonished her.
His mentality inspired her.
His wisdom left her amazed.
As the finest Poison Master in the Chu Yun Empire, once her train of thought had been opened, she quickly realized what Lin Yuan intended to accomplish.
It truly had considerable potential.
To take the relatively common Devil Poison Spot of the Chu Yun Empire and develop from it an entirely new cultivation system.
She could not help but marvel at the idea.
She vaguely felt that Lin Yuan's way of thinking was fundamentally different from that of most people on the Dou Qi Continent.
Shaking away those unnecessary thoughts, she looked at him and said thoughtfully,
"A bold and innovative plan. If you can truly refine the energy within the Devil Poison Spot, then it does indeed have tremendous potential."
"If you've already made up your mind, then I'll do everything I can to help you."
"Thank you, Little Fairy Doctor."
Lin Yuan nodded slightly.
"There's no need for thanks."
She waved her hand.
"Between us, such formalities aren't necessary."
"Besides, what you've done for me far exceeds this."
"Alright."
Lin Yuan did not stand on ceremony.
He nodded, excitement flashing across his eyes.
The Little Fairy Doctor was the greatest Poison Master in the Chu Yun Empire.
With her assistance, future research involving the Devil Poison Spot and poison techniques would undoubtedly achieve twice the results with half the effort.
"The great war in the Chu Yun Empire is about to begin."
Supporting her chin with one hand, the Little Fairy Doctor asked, "What do you think we should do next?"
After the poison had briefly affected her mind earlier, and with Lin Yuan now beside her, she had little desire to think too much for the moment.
Lin Yuan pondered for a moment as his fingers gently stroked Zi Yan's silky purple hair.
"Let's synchronize our information first."
"Tell me everything important you've experienced and everything significant you know. I'll examine it from the perspective of an outsider, ask questions where necessary, and together we'll organize the current situation."
As he spoke, Lin Yuan casually waved his hand.
A vast amount of Dou Qi surged outward, condensing within moments into an elegant pavilion.
As if sharing a silent understanding, the Little Fairy Doctor also waved her hand.
A stone table and three stone stools instantly formed inside the pavilion.
The three then entered and took their seats.
Lin Yuan condensed three cups, took out a jug of spiritual liquor that he had brewed himself, and filled each cup.
Smiling at the Little Fairy Doctor, he said,
"Please."
"I brewed this myself. Give it a try."
"My skills in these areas have improved quite a bit over the years."
The Little Fairy Doctor nodded.
Picking up the cup, she took a sip before beginning her account.
Just as Lin Yuan had requested, she told him every important piece of information she knew.
Lin Yuan gently swirled the wine in his cup, analyzing everything based on her account, his knowledge of the original timeline, and the intelligence he had gathered himself.
When she finally finished speaking, a sharp light flashed across his eyes.
"So that's how it is..."
"As expected, the current situation in the Chu Yun Empire has been deliberately pushed forward by the Hall of Souls. That's why it has developed to the point where the two great factions are preparing for a decisive war."
"As for their objective, it goes without saying."
"They naturally want to expand the war as much as possible, create more deaths, and harvest more souls."
"But that's fine."
"If the Hall of Souls hadn't intervened this time, the Little Fairy Doctor might already have encountered real danger."
"And I also need this war to complete the reshuffling and harvest..."
Thinking this, Lin Yuan straightened his expression and looked at the Little Fairy Doctor.
"Little Fairy Doctor, this matter is probably far more complicated than it appears."
"The enemies we'll have to face are likely far more than just that old fellow from the Myriad Scorpion Gate..."
Tianxie Mountain Range, Myriad Scorpion Gate
Inside a secluded cave filled with gray poisonous mist, the old man seated cross-legged atop a stone platform slowly opened his eyes.
The gray Dou Qi surrounding him gradually dissipated.
His hair and beard were completely white.
His aged face was expressionless, yet a frightening gleam occasionally flashed through his seemingly clouded eyes.
Rising from the stone platform, he picked up a jet-black walking staff topped with a scorpion's head and looked toward the empty space before him.
"Protector Tie, since you've come, why not show yourself?"
The moment he finished speaking, dense black smoke suddenly surged into the cave, gathering before him into a writhing mass of darkness.
A sinister, eerie laugh echoed from within the black mist.
"Heh heh heh..."
"Xie Bi Yan, the decisive battle between your Myriad Scorpion Gate and the Poison Sect is drawing near. This Protector has come specifically to assist you."
"I hope our cooperation will continue to be as pleasant as always."
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